SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 8/17/2017
9:36 AM
My Worship Time Focus:
It was a Miraculous Church
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: Acts 2:43b
Message of the
verses: “and many wonders and signs
were taking place through the apostles.”
God was using the spiritual gifts that He had given to
the apostles to do wonders and miracles for the purpose of causing people to
turn to the Lord as seen in Acts 9:35. I
have mentioned in an earlier SD that the Lord gave what is called “sign gifts”
to believers as the church began in order to call people to Himself, and once
the Bible was completed then these sign gifts were no longer needed for people
had the entire Word of God to see the way of salvation and spiritual
growth. I realize that there are people
today that still believe in healings, and I also believe in the fact that God
heals people too, but I don’t believe in what is called “faith healers.” When I first became a believer I spoke to the
man who was my mentor and he told me that God heals you every time but the last
time when as a believer you go to be with the Lord.
Now as we look back at the gospels we see that our Lord
did His miracles for the same reason.
Jesus says the following in John 14:10-12,
“10 “Do you not believe that
I am in the Father, and the Father is in Me? The words that I say to you I do
not speak on My own initiative, but the Father abiding in Me does His works. 11
“Believe Me that I am in the Father and the Father is in Me; otherwise believe
because of the works themselves. 12 "Truly, truly, I say to you, he who
believes in Me, the works that I do, he will do also; and greater works than
these he will do; because I go to the Father.”
John MacArthur writes “The ability to perform miracles
was not given to all, but was limited to the apostles and their close
associates (such as Philip; cf. Acts 8:13).
The write of Hebrews said,
‘3 How will we escape if we
neglect so great a salvation? After it was at the first spoken through the
Lord, it was confirmed to us by those who heard, 4 God also testifying with
them, both by signs and wonders and by various miracles and by gifts of the
Holy Spirit according to His own will.’
“God attended the preaching
of the apostles with miracles to confirm that they were indeed His
messengers. With the passing of the
apostolic age, and the completion of the canon of Scripture, the need for such
confirmatory signs ended. Today we can
determine who speaks for God by comparing their teaching with God’s revelation
in Scripture.”
As we look at when a person comes to receive Jesus Christ
as their Savior and Lord so that they can have their sins forgiven and promised
to one day be with Him in heaven we see the greatest miracle that God continues
to do each and every day of the church age.
Spiritual meaning
for my life today: I want to trust
the Lord to continue to show me many wonderful things from His written Word in
order to bring glory to His name.
My Steps of Faith for Today: Continue to seek wisdom from the Lord in order
to bring glory to His name as I teach Sunday school this coming Sunday on a
different topic other than John 17 which we finished last week.
Answer to yesterday’s Bible
question: “Jerusalem” (Acts 25:9-11).
Today’s Bible
question: “Who was King Agrippa’s lady
companion?”
Answer in our next SD.
8/17/2017 10:01 AM
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